I made my first sale today…. 3 images at .25 a piece…. not a lot but it is a start. The sale came on Canstock, and the three images where rejected by a lot of other sites.
I have my work flow ironed out, so that I can submit about 10 images a day easily. I find 10 is a good number due to limits on the internet bandwidth I have here.
The rate I am going I will have “cleaned” out my harddrives by the end of this week, or early next week. This means I need to start shooting for stock if I want to keep up this pace.
Here is my acceptance ratio chart. I still have to figure out what different sites want.
| # sub | # accept | Stock | editorial | Rejected | Accept ratio | |
| Shutter Stock | 10 | 4 | ||||
| iStock | 28 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 11 | 60.71% |
| bigstockphoto | 45 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 25 | 44.44% |
| fotolia | 18 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 22.22% |
| Canstock | 129 | 86 | 86 | 0 | 43 | 66.67% |
| Dreamstime | 51 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 39 | 23.53% |
| 123rf | 102 | 93 | 77 | 16 | 9 | 91.18% |
| photodune | 76 | 62 | 62 | 0 | 14 | 81.58% |
| Pond5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| panthermedia | 10 | |||||
| Veer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.00% |
| Alamy | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0.00% | ||
| 497 | 294 | 269 | 25 | 177 | 62.42% |
